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Tascam Joins Sennheiser’s AMBEO For VR Partnership Program
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Tascam Joins Sennheiser’s AMBEO For VR Partnership Program

Sennheiser announced that the TEAC Corporation and its Tascam brand of professional video and broadcast equipment is joining the “AMBEO for VR” partnership program. Created to ensure seamless production workflows and interoperability for VR, AR and other 3D and spatial audio content creators, this Sennheiser program includes collaborations with acclaimed manufacturers of field recorders, VR live cameras, live streaming software, mixing plug-ins and VR platforms.
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3D Sound Labs and VideoLAN Partner on 3D Audio for VLC Media Player
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3D Sound Labs and VideoLAN Partner on 3D Audio for VLC Media Player

3D Sound Labs, the 3D/VR Audio French specialist, and VideoLAN, the editor of the world's renowned VLC media player jointly announced their collaboration to bring world-class experience to 360° video and 3D audio content in the upcoming version of VLC. The release 3.0 of VLC introduces 360° video and high-quality 3D Audio rendering. It supports multichannel and well as ambisonics audio content up to 3rd order ambisonics.
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Listen Announces SoundCheck 16 Release
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Listen Announces SoundCheck 16 Release

Listen announced the release of SoundCheck 16, its flagship audio measurement software. With a consistent schedule of product updates since the original launch in 1995, the new release of SoundCheck includes a bundle of new features that expand its capability and simplify ease of use. A completely re-designed THD+N analysis algorithm is now more accurate and significantly faster than other audio test systems, and is compliant with the AES17 stan­dard.
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Mixcloud Taps Gracenote for Advanced Music Recognition to Improve Royalty Payment Process for Rights Holders
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Mixcloud Taps Gracenote for Advanced Music Recognition to Improve Royalty Payment Process for Rights Holders

Gracenote, a Nielsen company, announced that it will power advanced music recognition for Mixcloud streaming platform, using next-generation audio fingerprinting to help identify and catalog copyrighted music within user-generated content. Using Gracenote's MusicID music recognition technology, Mixcloud will more accurately identify copyrighted audio content on its music platform to ensure proper royalty payments to rights holders.
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ARKAMYS SoundStage Audio Software Now Available On AKM AK7738 DSP
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ARKAMYS SoundStage Audio Software Now Available On AKM AK7738 DSP

ARKAMYS, a French company specializing in digital sound processing for automotive solutions announced a partnership with Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) to enhance in-vehicle immersive audio experience for drivers and passengers. ARKAMYS successfully ported its audio enhancement software solution SoundStage Core on AKM’s AK7738 digital signal processor (DSP), leveraging the platform capabilities to enhance the surround sound effect achieved inside the car.
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Solid State Logic Acquired by Audiotonix Group
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Solid State Logic Acquired by Audiotonix Group

Audiotonix announced the acquisition of Solid State Logic (SSL) as part of its expanding Group that already includes leading British audio brands DiGiCo, DiGiGrid, Calrec and Allen & Heath. The deal, which was concluded December 20, 2017, brings together the top flight of the world’s mixing consoles companies. Peter Gabriel, the majority shareholder in Solid State Logic, becomes an investor in Audiotonix as part of the transaction.
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Home Audio Speaker Market Continues to See Significant Growth
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Home Audio Speaker Market Continues to See Significant Growth

2.2 billion digital assistant-enabled devices will ship in 2017, growing to 3.6 billion in 2022, says SAR Insight & Consulting in its latest research, "Digital Assistant Platforms; Use Cases, Technologies, Market Sectors & Competitive Analysis." According to the market research firm, home audio speakers will continue to lead the way, as voice recognition improves, with significant growth opportunities in smartphones, headphones, appliances, automotive, and the enterprise.
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Intel Unveils Industry’s First FPGA Integrated with High Bandwidth Memory Built for Acceleration
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Intel Unveils Industry’s First FPGA Integrated with High Bandwidth Memory Built for Acceleration

Intel today announced the availability of the Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA, the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2). By integrating the FPGA and the HBM2, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs offer up to 10 times the memory bandwidth when compared with standalone standard DDR 2400 DIMM memory solutions.
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Tascam Expands Dante-Enabled Lineup with New Multichannel Interfaces
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Tascam Expands Dante-Enabled Lineup with New Multichannel Interfaces

With many studios and professional audio companies embracing Dante audio networking solutions, digital connectivity becomes a simple, versatile, and reliable process. Responding to that trend, TASCAM has unveiled two innovative new additions to their line of Dante-enabled offerings. Designed to provide powerful and flexible connectivity between analog and digital components, the TASCAM ML-32D and ML-16D are multichannel Line Level to Dante and Dante to Line Level interfaces.
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Prism Sound Embraces ASIO Direct Monitoring (ADM) For Key Interface Products
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Prism Sound Embraces ASIO Direct Monitoring (ADM) For Key Interface Products

In a move that will significantly improve the end user experience for its audio interface customers, Prism Sound has upgraded four of its key products to ensure that they all support ASIO Direct Monitoring (ADM). The company’s Titan, Atlas and Lyra audio interfaces and its SADiE workstation software now include ADM, which allows mixers in the interface device to be controlled automatically from Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software.
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